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Oh, and as for this piece of bullshite, Reggie was paid lots of money, much of it in hard cash. Again, everyone should refresh their memory on this periodically. (Paragraph B.1.a(4) of Section III, for this specific reference)

I am familiar with the report. What it fails to mention was that these conclusions were reached based on the testimony of convicted felon Lloyd Lake.

You might buy it, the NCAA certainly did, and I am not so naive as to think that Reggie Bush (along with MANY other high profile athletes where CF is king) did not receive benefits he shouldn't have.

But Lake is a crook. Not an NCAA violator although he certainly contributed to that, but a bona fide felon. His motive was nothing more than a shakedown of Bush, who didn't comply, and so the beans (both the fabricated and the factual) were spilled.

You might gobble that NCAA report hook, line and sinker, but I don't.

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Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 5/25/12 at 4:31 am to loweralabamatrojan

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You might gobble that NCAA report hook, line and sinker, but I don't.

I see. So the facts ascertained by the NCAA investigators over years of investigation are all pure manufactured lies because one of the people involved is not a credible witness. But your version is the pure, unassailable, unvarnished truth because it is based 100% on the word of Reggie Bush . . . clearly an unbiased party with absolutely no reason whatsoever to fabricate, mislead, or lie about what went on in this situation.

I guess O.J. really didn't do anything wrong, either, right? (Mayo, not the other one)

Somehow, I'm not surprised. The difference between us is that when my school does something bad, I'm pissed off at the people that did it, not the people who caught us. And I don't pretend like it didn't happen, or we didn't do it, or there's some big conspiracy out to get us. We paid Lester Earl. And it was a terrible thing to do. And it was stupid and wrong. And were punished for it. I grumbled that the punishment was a bit stiffer than it should have been, but I never tried to minimize what we did.

Bush was paid. He was paid in cash, among lots of other benefits. The coach knew about it, and let him keep playing. That is cheating on close to the highest order in the NCAA. If that had been the only violation, it would have warranted major sanctions. But it wasn't. It was neither the only violation for the football program nor the only sport in which there were violations. SC was cheating rampantly across the board, and doing so while already under probation. And instead of accepting that, and owning up to the major cheating your team team used to win its championship, you just keep making up lies and excuses.

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Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 5/25/12 at 4:34 am to loweralabamatrojan

On an unrelated note, how many argumentative insomniac college football fans that don't have to get up for work in the morning are there on the internet?

Geez, don't you people have lives?